Mad Quotes - Page 12

• Zombies are then a symbol of our own mad urges to destroy ourselves, and a terrifying portent that we might succeed.

  Kim Paffenroth

  Zombie, Might, Succeed

  Kim Paffenroth (2006). “Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth”, p.3, Baylor University Press

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• It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Race, Genius, Humans

  Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.219, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Ideas, Gone, Paper

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• I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

  Pat Nixon

  Talking, Leave Me Alone, Tantrums

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• The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

  John Lennon

  Music, World, Excuse

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• And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Baby, Humor

  "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson, September 13, 2001.

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• A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Humanity, Gains

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• All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

  Angela Carter

  Artist, Self, Creative

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• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  Maeve Binchy

  Suffering, Saint, Might

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• I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

  Candy Crowley

  Upset, Let It Go, Stills

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• We are told that when Hölderlin went 'mad,' he constantly repeated, 'Nothing is happening to me, nothing is happening to me.'

  Paul Celan

  Happenings

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• When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.

  Nico

  Nice, Diaries, Actors

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• Oppression makes a wise man mad.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wise, Men, Oppression

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.

  Ice T

  Being Real, Being Mad, Right Thing

  Ice-T, Douglas Century (2011). “Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood”, p.248, One World

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• I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

  Young Jeezy

  Serious, Married, Streets

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• I feel very comfortable in my own skin. When someone makes jokes about me being heavy, it makes me mad. It's not true. I'm right where I should be.

  Amy Schumer

  Skins, Should, Heavy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• .. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.

  Sarah Waters

  Thinking, Longing, Kill Me

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.299, Penguin

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• I can't stay mad at Pope Frank. I just can't. It's a funny situation that I like the pope and Mel Gibson doesn't.

  Bill Maher

  Pope, Situation, Frank

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• The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

  Heinrich Heine

  Real, Taken, Tired

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• Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Peace, War, Long

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• My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join the army. Anything but this. He couldn't believe it. I agree with him: It wasn't a viable career opportunity.

  Mick Jagger

  Father, Believe, Army

  "Jagger Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.mickjagger.com. November 7, 1995.

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• I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people

  Mick Jagger

  Night, Years, Class

  Source: www.mickjagger.com

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• I guess the one-liner kind of comic sounds like a guy who can talk and talk and whatever the subject is, he can pull out a one-liner, but I couldn't do that. I didn't like the association. I mean, I love Steven Wright, but so many people started saying "Steven Wright" to me, and I would get mad, because I never wanted to be thought of as copying anybody.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Mean, People, Guy

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 8, 2004.

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• Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.

  Vince Staples

  Lying, Writing, Radio

  "Earl Sweatshirt On RZA Day, His Purpose And Paul McCartney". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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• As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Curiosity, Looks, Parks

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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